Holocaust Survivors' Son Condemns Israel's Treatment of Palestinians
Don't respect that anymore.
I really don't. I don't like and I don't
respect the crocodile tears to con-
to- The crocodile tears-
No.
Uh, I'm... Folks,
al- allow me to finish. And allow me to... Allow me to finish.
Listen, sir. Allow me to finish. Allow me to
finish. Uh, sir, sir.
I don't like to play,
I don't like to play before an audience the
Holocaust card. But since now I feel com-
Now I feel compelled to.
You run-
My late father was in Auschwitz.
Are you turning red?
My late mother... Please shut
up.
My late father was in Auschwitz. My
late mother was in Majdanek concentration camp.
Every single member of my family on my father's
side-
On my father's side-
The Jews did not take arms against the Germans.
My late father was in Auschwitz concentration camp.
My late mother was in Majdanek concentration camp.
Every single member of my family on both sides was
exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising. And it's precisely
and exactly because of the lessons my
parents taught me and my two siblings
that I will not be silent when Israel commits its
crimes against the Palestinians.
And I consider nothing more despicable
than to use their suffering and their
martyrdom to try to justify the
torture, the brutalization, the demo-
demolition of homes that Israel daily commits against
the Palestinians. So I refuse any
longer to be intimidated or browbeaten
by the tears. If you had any heart in you, you
would be crying for the Palestinians.
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